The Age of Water Lillies

Arriving in the town of Walhachin in 1912, Flora Oakden falls in love with the dry sagebrush and rolling hills of the area, and with a charismatic labourer. After her lover is sent to fight in the battlefields of France, Flora discovers she is pregnant. Shunned for being unmarried, she heads west to Victoria. Here Flora meets a freethinker who offers her more than just shelter in her home overlooking the Ross Bay Cemetery.
Forward fifty years, and among the headstones of Ross Bay Cemetery the life of a curious and young neighbour, Tessa, becomes interwoven with Flora's. Despite their age difference, the two build a friendship that springs from a shared passion for nature and the past.
It's a sweeping novel that travels from the wrenching hardships of the First World War to the pacificst movement, to 1960s Victoria.